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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… time when the tea-table was coded as domestic and feminine. The production of sugar was closely linked to transatlantic slavery, as documented in James Grainger's georgic poem The Sugar Cane (1764). The 1790s saw a major sugar boycott, in which female consumers participated and which aimed at the emancipation of slaves. Information about slavery in the West Indies was distributed through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumer culture Tea Tea-table Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Boycott Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth century, became more affordable and more …

William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]

… Résumé William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a key figure in the successive campaigns for the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery in Britain. His long parliamentary speeches were crucial in the success of his fight, but it is primarily his …

Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]

… sphere, setting up a clash between whites and free people of colour with the coming of the French Revolution. Places > Trade Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Colonialism Slavery Theatre Marronage Women Saint-Domingue As historical scholarship over the past few decades has shown , … role in the remote French colony of Saint Domingue, on the other side of the Atlantic? It might be thought that this slave colony had little sociability to speak of; it was known more for brutality than sociability. Nine-tenths of its …

Aphra Behn [ Art and Literature ]

… inédit fut largement diffusé dans les cercles littéraires européens.   People > Art and Literature Mots-clés author Slavery espionage Salons Theatre Une vie de plume et d'aventures Il existe peu de traces de l’enfance d’Aphra Behn. … à la traite d’esclaves, notamment aux Barbades. Avec la Charte de la Company of Royal Adventures of England Relating to Trade in Africa (1663), le commerce d’esclaves était reconnu officiellement par le roi Charles II dans l’Empire … des sauvages qu’il convenait d’assujettir:  7 . Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (Versailles : S. Dasier, 1779). Those who want Slaves, make a Bargain with a Master, or Captain of a Ship, and contract to pay him so much a-piece, a matter of twenty …

Merchants [ Commerce ]

… and financial dealings. People > Commerce Mots-clés merchant middling sort credit commerce Politeness A merchant was ‘a trader or a dealer by wholesale’, especially ‘one who trafficks to remote countries’. 1  Not only did the variety of … The National Archives , Kew, London, E 190/1427/5. Some of the most popular new commodities were linked directly to the slave trade. Foster Cunliffe was the head of a prosperous slave-trading family in Liverpool, where he also served three terms as mayor. By the mid-eighteenth century, Liverpool …

Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]

… of the species through time. Savagery is not absent from the eighteenth-century society, though: Darwin denounced slavery as an obstacle to the progress of mankind. Slavery is a counter-model of sociability as it is defined by Darwin: it is the refusal to sympathize with fellow-humans … the Age of Pasturage, the Age of Agriculture, the Age of Commerce (which was characterized by ‘luxury’ and ‘slave trade’) and the Age of Philosophy. The Age of Philosophy was yet to come; it was an idealized future without war and …